Warm Springs Millennium : Voices from the Reservation - Softcover

Baughman, Michael; Hadella, Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0292708866 ISBN 13: 9780292708860

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 2000

Synopsis

Established in 1855 on an area one-fifteenth the size of the lands relinquished in return for it, the Warm Springs Reservation in north central Oregon is home to some 3,600 Warm Springs, Wasco, and Paiute Indians, half of whom are under twenty. This book seeks to understand the reservation's inhabitants as a "viable people" who are both visible and vocal as they reflect on their daily lives, their struggles and successes, and their hopes for the future.

Michael Baughman and Charlotte Hadella present extended interviews with seven Indian and two non-Indian members of the community. They discuss issues such as the difficulty of maintaining traditional lifeways centered around hunting, fishing, and gathering; the disruptions caused by alcoholism and diseases such as diabetes; and the need for culturally appropriate education for the young. The authors frame the interviews with explanatory material that covers the reservation's history and relations with white society and its efforts to transmit native languages and cultural traditions to its children.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Baughman is Emeritus Professor at Southern Oregon University in Ashland.

Review:

"The only way the masses seem to be able to identify with [Indians] is in the past. My idea is, we're still here, we're a viable people, we have the same heartbreaks, the same successes, the same failures as everybody else does... We're here yet, but it's like we're invisible, and it seems like it's always kind of been that way." Brent Florendo, a Wasco from the Warm Springs Reservation

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0292708866
• ISBN 13: 9780292708860
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216